Charlie Brooker: Mr Angry’s sexy side

Charlie Brooker once called for the assassination of George W Bush (Graham Jepson)

Until about ten to five on Thursday afternoon, last week was really quite hideously boring. So boring, in fact, that at one point my editor even wondered if I’d like to interview a dog with a vocabulary of 1,022 words. Before I had time to scream — Jordan’s not that verbally dextrous, is she? — he told me Chaser had already talked to the tabloids.

And so my gaze fell on the columnist and television presenter Charlie Brooker. If anyone was having a worse time with a flatlining news agenda, it must have been Brooker and his co-stars on 10 O’Clock Live, Channel 4’s massively hyped, “news-grabbing”, new newsy news show, tearing their heads off in an attempt to sex up Tunisia, tuition fees and…